The Marrow is an online literary journal published three times a year featuring the finest new international poetry from emerging and established poets. It was founded by Audrey Molloy, Daragh Byrne, and Natalie Bühler in 2024. Judith Beveridge and Denise O’Hagan joined the editorial team in 2025. If you would like to send your work to The Marrow, please view our submission guidelines.

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MEET our editors

  • Audrey Molloy

    FOUNDING EDITOR

    Audrey is a poet, editor and mentor who grew up in Ireland and has lived in Sydney since 1998. Her debut collection, The Important Things (The Gallery Press, 2021) received the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize. Her latest collection Fallen is published by The Gallery Press and Pitt Street Poetry. Audrey has an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Manchester Metropolitan University.

  • Daragh Byrne

    FOUNDING EDITOR

    Daragh is an Irish poet and editor who lives on Gadigal land (Sydney). His work has been published in journals, newspapers and anthologies in Australia, the UK and Ireland, including Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Wild Court, Howl, Southword, Crannóg, Skylight 47 and Abridged. In 2022 he received third prize in the Poetry London competition and was shortlisted for the Val Vallis award (Australia). He has MC’d the Sydney Poetry Lounge, a regular open-mic night, since 2020.

  • Judith Beveridge

    POETRY EDITOR

    Judith is a poet and editor who lives on Wallumedegal land in Sydney. She has published eight collections of poetry and has edited several anthologies. She was poetry editor of Meanjin for 10 years and taught poetry writing at post-graduate level at Sydney University for 16 years. Her book Sun Music: New and Selected Poems was awarded the 2019 Prime Minister’s Award for poetry. Her latest book is Tintinnabulum, short-listed for the UK Laurel Prize.

  • Denise O'Hagan

    POETRY EDITOR

    Denise is a Sydney-based poet, born and raised in Rome. She has a background in academic book publishing in London and Sydney and was poetry editor with The Blue Nib until 2020. Her poetry is widely published and her awards include the Dalkey Poetry Prize, the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize and the NSW Poetry Prize. Her third poetry collection is forthcoming from 5 Islands Press (2026).

  • Natalie Bühler

    CO-FOUNDER, PAST-EDITOR

    Natalie is an emerging poet, editor and arts administrator living and working on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in Melbourne, originally from Switzerland. Her work has been published by Cordite, Hills Hoist, Blindside Gallery, Tint, Blue Bottle Journal and in the Tell Me Like You Mean It and Tinted Trails anthologies, among others. She is the Program Administrator for Red Room Poetry and currently studies a Master of Creative Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Melbourne.